The Week in Radical Leftism, 07/06/2023
Welcome back to Day 899 of America held hostage by the Biden* occupation! While I normally grab some underreported story each day, this week a bunch of interesting stories clustered …
Brazil’s Luiz “Lula” da Silva & Dilma Rousseff = Obama & Clinton
We witness Obama’s relentless attacks on Trump, even while standing beside a foreign leader, and the media cannot help itself. The first President on the way out the door to …
Buffett and Soros benefit from Obama’s decisions. Us not so much. [Reader Post]
Whenever Barack Obama makes a key decision, it always seems to benefit special supporters. 80% of the money Obama threw away on “green energy” programs went to his big donors. It’s become painfully evident that crony capitalism has its fingerprints all over other Barack Obama decisions.
Obama’s incoherent oil policy [Reader Post]
The price of oil reached a 30 month high of $108 per barrel on April 1.
Almost as if a signal was given, a host of articles appeared recently all saying exactly the same thing.
You Can’t Drill a Way to Cheap Gas
We can’t drill our way to energy independence
This Week’s Events 3/27/2011 [Reader Post]
Egyptian television people are beginning to say that the Muslim Brotherhood have taken over the Egyptian revolution, and the revolutionary youth have been replaced by bearded men with guns.
A group of Muslims attacked Ayman Anwar Mitri, a 45 year old Christian Coptic man in the Upper Egyptian town of Qena, cutting off his ear. The Muslims claimed they were applying Sharia law because Mr. Mitri allegedly had an illicit affair with a Muslim woman. Mr. Mitri, a low grade administrator at a secondary school, from elHasweya, in Qena, 492 KM from Cairo, had rented his flat to two Muslim sisters, Abeer and Sabrin Saif Al-Nasr, through an agent. After nine months he learned the sisters had been indicted for prostitution, so he asked them to leave and they did.
Obama’s Surge in Foreign Oil Dependence Program [Reader Post]
As Glenn Reynolds might say, “They told me that if I voted for John McCain the US would become even more dependent on foreign oil and they were right.”
Following the Deepwater Horizon disaster, Barack Obama put a moratorium on deep water drilling. Then he extended the moratorium and delayed the sales of oil leases in Alaska.
Federal Courts overturned the original moratoriums and Obama went ahead and issued another moratorium and has ignored the Court rulings since then.